Socialtext Releases Commercial Open Source Wiki

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006; 02:57 AM

Palo Alto based Socialtext released their Socialtext Open wiki software at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON).  Socialtext Open is the first open source wiki with a commercial venture as its primary contributor. Over 2,000 businesses, including IKEA and Symantec, run Socialtext wikis as a hosted service or appliance.

Wikis are group-editable websites that are private, linkable and searchable. Socialtext makes secure wikis used by global companies for daily project communication and intranet-like needs. The company provides open source software and commercial services like support and hosting. 

Socialtext Open is released under a standard open source license, and contains all of Socialtext's enterprise grade code aside from enterprise management and enterprise integration tools. Socialtext also announced the availability of its Technical Professional Service, a new SOAP API and the Socialtext Open Roadmap for the next three months.

The new Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Application Programming Interface to enable developers to integrate and extend Socialtext Open.  Documentation is provided at Socialtext's website.

"This release completes Socialtext's transformation into a commercial open source business," said Socialtext CEO Ross Mayfield. "Wikis have a rich open source tradition that we are proud to be a part of. Socialtext Open provides businesses an easy-to-use wiki designed for professional use. Freedom included."

Socialtext's first commercial open source offering was Wikiwyg, an AJAX based WYSIWYG editor. Last month Socialtext announced a partnership with Dan Bricklin to distribute and co-develop wikiCalc, the wiki spreadsheet, under an open source license.